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I don't know why "application performance" is brought up here, do you mean adoption? I think Racket is a pretty bad choice, I'm from Italy and here you find th

by gcmrtc 6y ago

I don't know why "application performance" is brought up here, do you mean adoption? I think Racket is a pretty bad choice, I'm from Italy and here you find that word in news about mafia and organized crime, so imagine the kind of association it bears with it. Naming things is hard, but sometimes hackers seem to choose to make it harder... https://racket-lang.org/new-name.html https://racket-lang.org/new-name.html

frostburg 6y ago
I'm also from Italy and you know perfectly well that nobody even aware of the existence of Scheme dialects would be confused by this.
- Bost 6y ago
  And what about people without any knowledge of Scheme dialects? (Let's call them, for the sake of brevity "CS juniors".)
ipnon 6y ago
Consequently, Doom and Quake are banned from your household in favor of Animal Crossing?
skrishnamurthi 6y ago
I presume you refuse to play tennis, then, solo calcio.
- Bost 6y ago
  Uhm, I wonder how would people from this village comment on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria